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Astarion heard Gale swallow thickly and then he could smell it. Lust. Sweet and fragrant. The wizard's gaze flicked down to his mouth.
All at once everything fell into place.
Of course he wouldn't take him to his bedroom and tell him to strip.
The wizard possessed something Cazador had never had: Manners.
He’d chosen a far more subtle approach that left Astarion the comforting illusion of free will. The trap hadn’t been as crude as food and shelter. No, Astarion had been accruing a far less obvious debt. The library card. The suddenly tuned piano. The bottles of bergamot and rosemary oil that had found a way into his bathroom. The glasses. The ring. A debt he had never agreed to, but still it had built.
Anyone could tell what the wizard wanted in payment.Waterdeep will be many things for Astarion. A place to rest. A place to heal. A place to figure out what the fuck he wants to do with his life now.
It will also be a place of endless frustration with a wizard who refuses to collect on his debts and a stranger he can not keep himself from returning to.
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When the Illithid took Gale and infected him, he didn't think it would change his life so much... especially since he knew he was destined to die.
The events of Baldur' s Gate 3, but this time, in a more modern era...
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It's two years after the fall of the Netherbrain, and life has been kinder to Selathiel than she could've ever imagined.
She is married to the love of her life, learning magic (Gale truly had the patience of a saint), and living in a home filled with more love, light, and happiness than she thought possible.
Until, of course, she falls sick - and fully convinces herself that not only is she dying, but that it would be for the best to hide it from Gale.
It goes about as well as you'd expect.
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- Part 1 of Selathiel and Gale
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Wedding bells ring, but darkness looms on the horizon when Gale and Astarion return home.
Are our lovers doomed? Will they ever just talk through a situation? What happened in Florence?!
Tune in for this installment of Houses to find out!
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- Part 7 of Houses
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Astarion has spent more than his fair share of time in and out of hospitals and emergency rooms, and one thing is always guaranteed : no one knows what to do with him. He's used to being misunderstood, questioned, and flat-out accused of lying or exaggerating.
But he's sick. He knows he is. He just doesn't know why.
Dr. Gale Dekarios has always loved a challenge. A chance encounter with a beautiful - and mysterious - patient leaves him thinking about the man for days, and when the man appears in his office a week later, Gale is determined to find the answers he deserves.
A story about being seen, being cared for, and falling in love.
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Gale returns to Waterdeep with Tav and Astarion to find a cure for vampirism. Gale believes he can cure Astarion himself by becoming Mystra’s Chosen once again. But to regain Mystra’s favour, Gale should avoid association with his former classmate, Evelyn, as she casts with the Shadow Weave. Unfortunately, Tav and Astarion believe Evelyn is the best choice to help them, as Gale is keeping quiet for now about his plan to become Chosen.
Evelyn has never explored the full extent of her magic. Turning to the Shadow Weave cost her much, and she fears there is yet more to pay. Recruited by Tav and Astarion to find a cure for vampirism, Evelyn worries that she will not be able to deliver. It doesn’t help that she has to work with Gale, for whom she has cultivated complicated feelings over the years.
***If you like two people who are clearly down bad for each other, but have to work through their hang-ups first, this is for you! There is repressed desire on both sides, and self-esteem issues (particularly for the FemOC), but there will be eventual (healing!) sexy times. There is plot, but it's centred on their developing relationship. I've almost finished writing it, and new chapters are posted every Sunday.***
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Astarion is free of Cazador, and now works as a bounty hunter. When a contract sends him to Waterdeep in search of a necromancer, he meets Gale, who also happens to be searching for the same man in an effort to free himself from the parasite within him. While initially joining forces for a common goal, the passion and connection between them flares to life, as they slowly fall for each other over the course of the journey.
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/to burn rapidly with intense heat/
The wizard’s insurmountable expectations haven’t changed. Astarion has.
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- Part 3 of Deprecation
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Funny, she didn't feel old. Not always. Not at the moment, in any case—her steps remained sure as ever when she hunted, her feathers smooth and full when she soared among the clouds.
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After the defeat of the Netherbrain, Tav (here named Dahamunzu) struggles to maintain balance between her old identity and her new Illithid mind. She finds solace with the Emperor, as both attempt to negotiate a hostile world. An angry populace in Baldur's Gate and the machinations of Vlaakith in the Astral Plane threaten to ensnare them both in the repercussions of their pasts.
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- Part 2 of Glorious
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By a Knife's Edge by JustaWritingPotato
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
02 Feb 2025
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“Ellia, it is a genuine pleasure.” He held his right hand out once more. She stared at the bandages, now slightly out of place by her pulling, and the slivers of exposed skin beneath: dark, purpling grey with a cracked-stone texture. Flashes of injuries and maladies skittered across her mind—nothing matched what she saw in him.
“I don’t want to hurt you,” she said with an indicating nod.
His smile turned wry. “Believe me, the damage there has already been done. But perhaps you’re right, and this will be better.” He swapped one hand for the other. A moment’s hesitation, then she accepted. His touch was warm. His skin more worn, more lived-in, than what she’d expected from a study-bound wizard. She wondered, dimly, what he felt in her hand. If the illusion would hold true under such direct connection, and what would happen if he realized who she truly was. But then his hand was gone and her wondering went with it. It didn’t matter. They wouldn’t be together long.
A novelization of BG3, reframed as a romance between Gale and a resistant Durge with alternating POVs. Elements of concept Gale. More Alfira. More Tara. More reactivity to Durge actions. Puns.
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With the Netherbrain defeated, Gale can finally return to Waterdeep with Emmeline by his side. However, a choice lies ahead for his paladin lover. Her vengeance, should she choose to seek it, will hang more than just their future in the City of Splendors in the balance. Will she finally find closure? And if so, what will remain when the dust settles?
Updates weekly!
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- Part 2 of Your Protector's Coming Home
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WARNINGS: Discussions of suicide attempt, with anxiety and depression themes.
Gale slowly begins to live again, and Astarion stays by his side
Title of this story from Final Fantasy IV
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- Part 4 of Pieces of a Broken Heart
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While settling into his new home in Waterdeep, Astarion discovers some of Gale’s old clothes and learns that the wiry little wizard used to sport a more ample figure.
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The 'after' part of 'forever after', and all the growing pains that come with it.
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Gale loves her, which is not new. What is new is that she loves him-- if only she knew how to express it in a way that mattered.
Navigating the love of a wizard when you are a magic sinkhole is far more complicated than she'd anticipated.Series
- Part 3 of komorebi
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Badger at the Gate: Epilogues by No_one_of_account
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
01 Feb 2025
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A series of fluffy one-offs of post-BG3 stories as a follow-up to Badger at the Gate, wherein a honey badger shifter loosely based on the Shelly Laurenston's Honey Badger Chronicles gets kidnapped by the nautiloid. I suggest reading the main fic if you're not familiar with the sort of fuckery my !Tav, Lena, and her lIger shifer best friend, Edie, get up to. This will get updated when I get something stuck in my head like an earworm.
Also the occasional boring/perfunctory smut (I read it but can't write it).
I'll sometimes say to myself, "I can possibly make this chapter less crappy. Or I can make it worse. LET'S FIND OUT!"—those get a little 'Edit' in the summary.
Think of this as insurance in case I never manage to complete the main fic.
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- Part 2 of A Honey Badger in Baldur's Gate
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Weave Your Heart with Mine by Lalaithlingreen
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
01 Feb 2025
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*Life has been a bit tumultuous. I've gone ahead and written like 10 scenes for the Grove Gate fight, Saving Mirkon, the Teahouse, Astarion's Bite, Raphael, the Netherbrain etc. I swear I'm working on chronological posting going forward so I'll post when I reach them. There is now a published part II to Gale's Folly.
This work will be largely from Gale's point of view. My OC is a half-angel, a paladin of vengeance imported from another D&D setting.
"The roar of air in his ears brought him back to consciousness mid-free fall. He blinked; the ground was rising to meet him fast. The orb! He couldn’t allow it to detonate. A glance at the coastline and countryside below told him it was hardly a populated area. But still - the will to live burned in him yet. Please Mystra...He sent a silent prayer to his Goddess and reached for the weave..."
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In which The Dark Urge is messed up in the head, and Astarion's plan for tempting her into sex goes awry, but not entirely.
Warning: brief, playful mentions of murder / su*cide, but no violence occurs
Also, this is my first time ever posting here, so I'm trying to get a handle on all appropriate tags/warnings/etc. Forgive me please if I've done this wrong.
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An unusual saviour by Fantasticoncer
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
31 Jan 2025
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Sick and tired of being on earth centuries after her friends and family died while she stayed the same, Mistress of Death Avyanna Potter decides to move to a completely different world with help from Death, but even on this world as it seems to constantly get into some kind of danger, she seems to be unable to find the peace she wants
And of course, it probably doesn't help that even several centuries later, she still has the rather unfortunate abit of sticking her nose into the business of others and the huge urge to help anyone in need no matter what, changing the fates of many and preventing the plans of those planning to hurt others without so much as a hesitation
Getting kidnapped and getting a worm put inside her brain with the threat of turning into a mindflayer was just par for the course for her now, really. But even as she fights to live another day and the world she had gotten to know descends into chaos, she wonders if she'll ever find the happiness she craves. She should have remembered Dumbledore's words
"Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light"
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After the tadpoles are gone and everyone goes their separate ways, Astarion and Gale realize they can still hear each other’s thoughts. Probably because they’re soulmates.